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The Circle of Reason by Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary first novel makes a claim on literary turf held by Gabriel Garc a M rquez and Salman Rushdie. In a vivid and magical story, The Circle of Reason traces the misadventures of Alu, a young master weaver in a small Bengali village who is falsely accused of terrorism. Alu flees his home, traveling through Bombay to the Persian Gulf to North Africa with a bird-watching policeman in pursuit. A remarkable storyteller, a Scheherezade effortlessly spinning tales within tales, the possessor of a strong narrative voice quite like no other. -- Newsday Ghosh's writing soars, producing electric images. -- Baltimore Sun
Ghosh, Amitav: - Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and raised and educated in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, Egypt, India, and the United Kingdom, where he received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Oxford. Acclaimed for fiction, travel writing, and journalism, his books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, and Dancing in Cambodia. Ghosh has won France's Prix Medici Etranger, India's prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He now divides his time between Harvard University, where he is a visiting professor, and his homes in India and Brooklyn, New York.
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ISBN 13 | 9780618329625 |
ISBN 10 | 0618329625 |
Title | The Circle of Reason |
Author | Amitav Ghosh |
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Binding type | Paperback |
Publisher | Harper Perennial |
Year published | 2005-05-03 |
Number of pages | 423 |
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